Cuddalore, 23 March 2007: An industrial accident in Pioneer Miyagi left three workers at the unit injured today. According to the sources the workers were engaged in constructing the boiler unit when one of the chain pulley broke injuring the workers. Two workers sustained minor injuries and were hospitalised in a local private hospital while […]
PRESS RELEASE Chennai, 26 March 2007: A six-member expert panel has condemned the illegal dumping of garbage by the Chennai Corporation in Kodungaiyur, and has called for an immediate end to garbage burning and a phase out of garbage dumping in Kodungaiyur. The expert panel also urged the Corporation to abandon plans to set up […]
PRESS RELEASE Gummidipoondi, 21 March 2007 More than 500 residents, primarily women, from S.R. Kandigai panchayat in Gummidipoondi physically entered and stopped work at the project site of Tamil Nadu Waste Management Ltd (TNWML)’s hazardous waste landfill and incinerator. The construction was being carried out without permission from the local Government bodies and against the wishes […]
Thursday, March 22, 2007 Jaya Menon New Indian Express Chennai, March 21: Hundreds of residents of Gummidipoondi and surrounding villages today squatted on the site where work was to begin on a ‘land raise’ for dumping 35,000 tonnes of hazardous industrial wastes. The villagers were opposing the project’s location, about 500 metres from the nearest […]
Cuddalore, 14 March 2007: Acting upon the constant complaints of local fishermen and SACEM the TNPCB finally conducted a river patrol to check the river water quality and the illegal sources of effluent discharges into the river. The patrol started at 6 am today from Thaikal at North of SIPCOT and went on for about […]
Chennai, 17 March, 2007: The Madras High Court today while hearing a Writ Petition filed by S. Elumalai and V. Palanivelu challenging the consent to establish granted to the Chemplast Sanmar by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, declined to stay the consent order but made it very clear that the fate of the construction […]
Sunday, March 18 2007 NEW INDIAN EXPRESS SALEM: The Centre will set up 100 textile parks nationwide, including 20 in Tamil Nadu in the financial year 2007-08, Union Minister of State for Textiles E V K S Elangovan has said. Speaking at a seminar on “Current industrial trends in garment production” organised by Sona […]